----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 10:31 PM Subject: Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth
> Dan Minette wrote: > > > Another example is the fact that half of the EU budget goes to subsidize > > inefficient farms. > > Really? How big is that budget? Where does the rest of it go? At http://europa.eu.int/comm/budget/pubfin/index_en.htm We get the following figures: B1: EAGGF Guarantee Section (this is the main agriculture payment.) 45.2% B2: Structural operations, structural and cohesion funds: financial mechanism, other agricultural and regional operations, transport and fisheries 34.5% B3: Training, youth, culture, audio-visual media, information, social dimension and employment 0.9% B4: Energy, Euratom nuclear safeguards and environment 0.3% B5: Consumer protection, internal market, industry and trans-European networks 1.2% B6: Research and technological development 4.1% B7: External action 8.4% B8: Common foreign and security policy ~0.0% B0: Guarantees and reserves 0.2% DA: Administrative expenditure (of all the institutions) 5.2% Total 98.6 billion Euros _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
